Energy

America has some issues right now at the federal level with the Government shutdown, but at the state level, they’re still powering along. The tech-forward state of California, has announced a new standard, effective in 2020, will require all new homes to include solar panels. The decision comes from...

Tesla has announced their second big battery in Australia, located at Gunnawarra Solar Farm, is now connected to the grid. As part of the announcement, they provided a pretty sweet time-lapse of the construction process. The battery in Victoria may be half the size of the now famous big...

The Victorian Government is currently in caretaker mode, ahead of a state election on the 24th November. While both sides of politics are busy coming up with vote winning policies, they should look to South Australia for a great one. This week, the South Australian Government committed to subsidise...

Today, the Victorian Minister for Energy, Lily D’Ambrosio, opened the Ballarat Energy Storage System (BESS), located at the Ballarat Terminal Station in Warrenheip. This is the first of 2-large scale batteries planned for the state, to assist in the reliability of the grid. The first comes from Siemens-owned Fluence...

Whatever you think of the Premiere of South Australia, Jay Weatherill, you can’t deny he’s boldly pushing renewables on multiple fronts. The latest initiative today is a new plan to offer more than 10,000 SA home owners the opportunity to take an interest-free loan to purchase solar and batteries...

As we approach Summer, South Australia’s big battery from Tesla is done. It’ll be fully operational after some further testing, but the build is complete. Tesla founder Elon Musk turned to Twitter to congratulate the team on beating the 100 day target he set. Achieving the milestone of building...

Tesla are taking a new approach to getting their energy storage solution, the Powerwall 2 battery, into Australian households by partnering with builders directly. For existing home owners, you can always put up your hand and open your wallet to buy your own, but it makes a lot of sense to...

Lyon Group is a group of companies that invest in Australasia in the energy, water, agricultural sectors. Today they’ve announced they’re going to build a battery and solar farm worth $1 billion. This massive energy project will be built in Morgan, South Australia. Despite the scale of the project, they are expecting the...

The South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill will reveal a New energy policy tomorrow at 11am. The announcement comes on the back of conversations with Tesla Founder Elon Musk about how the company could assist the state (and the country) in storing energy made from their high volume of renewable energy generation. Is...

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